Rainer Weiss
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Rainer Weiss is a physicist born on September 29, 1932 in Berlin . Weiss holds citizenship in the United States and is best known as the founder of the LIGO Hanford Observatory . He was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) . Weiss's doctoral advisor was Jerrold R. Zacharias .
Throughout his career, Weiss advised doctoral students such as Daniel Dewey, David Owens, and Nergis Mavalvala . In recognition of his contributions to the field of physics, Weiss received awards, including the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics .
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Rainer Weiss
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